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Dawn of the Anthropocene concept
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/april/dawn-of-the-anthropocene-concept
Can the Anthropocene concept be traced back to the Comte de Buffon, a famed savant of the ancien régime of France? The evidence is made widely available for the first time with the first full English translation of Buffon’s concise masterpiece The Epochs of Nature,...
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Professor Gordon Campbell elected as fellow of Royal Society of Canada
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/september/gordon-campbell-royal-society-of-canada-fellowship
Gordon Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leicester, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. His election to what is the senior national council of Canadian scholars is his third recognition by an Academy.
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Whole World Cake
https://le.ac.uk/botanic-garden/education/primary/whole-world-cake
Learn more about the Whole World Cake programme that we offer to primary school children.
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Major European grant for research into rare diseases
https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/january/major-european-grant-for-research-into-rare-diseases
Our University has joined an international programme of research to improve the diagnosis of rare diseases.
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Annual lecture archive
https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/annual-lecture/annual-lecture-archive
Browse the archive of past annual lectures hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies
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Rise for Leicester to 35th in latest Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide
https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/september/times-rankings
The University of Leicester is on the rise in the Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, which has ranked the University 35th amongst UK Higher Education institutions.
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Rapid reaction equipment
https://le.ac.uk/mcb/about/facilities-and-services/biophysical-instrumentation-and-anaerobic-facilities/rapid-reaction-equipment
Find out about the rapid reaction equipment available in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Leicester. We are home to an Applied Photophysics SX20 Stopped-flow spectrometer and Hi-Tech RQF-63 Rapid Quench flow system.
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Playing Prison Architect
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/01/24/prison-architect-game/
prison architect; game; prison history
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Sustainability in the Workplace is About More than the Environment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2022/03/15/sustainability-in-the-workplace-is-about-more-than-the-environment/
Organisations need to think about sustainability when it comes to employees, not just the environment. Working with academics to conduct studies of employee involvement in relation to sustainability could lead to increases in productivity
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‘You want Pay-Rise with that?’ Strike Action, Fast-Food Style
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/business/2014/11/19/you-want-pay-rise-with-that-strike-action-fast-food-style/
Posted by Paul Brook in School of Business Blog on November 19, 2014 In the age of much austerity and few alternatives, Paul Brook , Senior Lecturer in the Sociology of Work and Employment at the School, makes a renewed claim for a politics of labour mobilisation Not...